----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Dondero Rittberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> And tell me please, by whose definition of libertarianism does that > position eminent? > > That's NOT the libertarian movement I joined in 1985 straight out of > the Navy in Jacksonville, Florida. I was a Pro-Choice political > activist recruited by the Florida Libertarian Party (Nick Dunbar, > Dianne Pilcher, Rex Curry, et.al.). They didn't say anything to me > about non-interventionist foreign policy or pacifism. It was > all, "Hey, Eric, we Libertarians are basically Pro-Choice > Conservatives; free market/Milton Friedman/Ayn Rand types on > Capitalism, yet Pro-Choice, Pro-Rock 'n Roll, Pro-Sex and Pro-Drug > Legalization on social matters." > They didn't show you a membership form? It says "I oppose the use of force or fraud to gain social, economic or political goals". Did you sign it without reading it? Milton Friedman has ALWAYS been non-interventionist. I wasn't aware of "Rock'n Roll" as a political issue since the 50's. I'm not aware of an LP plank in favor or opposed, and I think it would be silly to have one. > I said COOL, I'm joining Dudes and Dudettes. It was only later > about a year or two after that I learned there were nutty Leftwinger > America-hating pacifists in the LP. > What, because you haven't made the (libertarian) case for the Clinton/Bush War on Islam, we're just America haters? But YOUR side claims that smoking pot is supporting the other side. Who's side are you on? > Has the LP been misrepresenting itself to potential recruits? > Anybody that claims that libertarians support stupid wars, or oppose immigration, or have a plank on "Rock'n Roll" is misrepresenting the LP. > And if so, just what political movement should individuals such as > myself join, if we are hardcore Pro-Choice/Pro-Drug Legalization, > Pro-Free Markets on Economics, but also Pro-Defense, Pro-Patriotic > and Pro-America. We ARE the Pro-defense, Pro-Patriotic Party. What is patriotic about sending our troops away from our borders to fight in an unwinnable war (Mission Accomplished notwithstanding)? WE want to keep America out of senseless wars. That makes the LP the Pro-America Party. PEACE Steven R. Linnabary, Treasurer Franklin County Libertarian Party (614) 891-8841 P.O.Box#115; Blacklick, OH 43004-0115 "When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable" John F. Kennedy ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
